Curiosity and controversy over wave potential power arise

February 9, 2012

California’s Central Coast has the second largest wave potential power in the nation, falling second only to the state of Alaska, according to a new study conducted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). [MontereyCountyWeekly]

Atmocean Incorporated founder Phil Kithil studied the San Luis Obispo coastline last year, searching for more eco-friendly ways of producing power. The study focused on a particular method called wave energy sequestration technology, which involves hydraulic pressure being sent through a water wheel which then drives a generator.

“We got quite a bit more output than we expected,” Kithil said.

Paul Jacobson, an EPRI project manager, even suggests that if tapped into, the ocean in the Central Coast area could provide 21 gigawatts of wave energy each year. That’s enough to run about 21 nuclear power plants.

While the results of these studies sound promising, it is unlikely that much wave power will be produced in the near future. The information is primarily for theoretical purposes, say study researchers, citing the many potential dangers of wave power.

Perhaps a proven concept can be nationalized and deployed like the hoover dam and be built instead of constant resources being spent to maintain the free-flow of oil that we now find our national policy advocating.

Certainly, a fraction of the Military and Commercial Nuclear Power Industry could focus some of its intellectual know-how to solve these benign technical challenges. DOE must have grants available for such endeavors.

Another facet of this problem is to establish a military urgency for this technology, since its as natural of a motivator as getting up in the morning to make babies.

The Tar Sands Reserves of Canada and Northern States are massive, but there is an ecological cost to the extraction. Extraction and transporation requires massive amounts of steam that results in an aqueous byproduct that has its own challenges to control.

The air pollution district should get right on this. It would be an excellent way to obstruct natural fluvial sediment transport and keep sand from blowing onshore at Oceano Dunes. Of course, that would cause deflation of the dune field (loss of sand). Wave killing technology would compete nicely with the invasive ammophila arenaria grass (planted to stop sand movement) in destroying the natural dune complex.

But, hey, there would be no more natural blowing sand impacting all the rich 1%’ers downwind playing on their golf course that leveled half the trees on the Mesa.

They want the masses, but not them of course, to live in caves,consume their own waste and have 0 modern luxuries. They on the other hand live in stick built homes from products of destroyed forests abroad, use furniture made in child labor camps overseas, drive cars or bicycles made over seas by the most environmentally damaging unregulated companies on earth (NIMBY) then have the products shipped over on ocean and air fouling mega ships and then the finally is to have the goods trucked to their doors by smoke spewing 6mpg big rigs. Lies all of it,funny how we’ve gone from “global warming” to climate change, well no shit Sherlock, its cold in winter and hot in summer.

Europe is rather cold this year. We have been warming for thousands of years. Not that long ago both Yosemite Valley and NY’s Central Park were covered in thousands of feet of ice. Any man made warming, so far, is only accelerating the warming that would have happened anyhow.

It will never work, the greens will fight it as they fight every green energy project. I have become convince that the green movement does not want green energy they want NO energy they want us to go back to walking and living in tents. They refer to the population as “useless eaters”

I would like to repeat zaps request for one example of your wild accusation. What terrible thing to say, has the right lost all sense of morals?

There are weirdos on every side, I’m sure that there are libs that would say such a stupid thing but for every lib that would say such a mean thing I could find 50 cons that say even worse things than that.

I’ll be waiting for an example this term ‘useless eaters’ that ‘they’ use.

Good God! every body wants to own that phrase, Starting most recently with Henry Kissinger NSSM 200 a document issued in 1974 Henry Kissinger, who coined the phrase “useless eaters” next your claim, The senator from W.V. was about six years old when the Bilderbergers had the first meeting in 1956. Genesis of genocide Sir Bertrand Russell took credit as well, most every one thinks it was National Socialist Martyr Ludwig Maximilian Erwin Richter,
but it was actually from a tract published around 1920 by two university professors, Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche.
sorry for the run on sentence structure .